Accurate contact center forecasting and planning in just minutes
Your contact center’s success depends on accurate operational planning, scheduling and forecasting. Along with determining standard call volumes, an effective contact center plan must include handle times, sick time, agent attrition, outbound contact rates and more. Yet, if planning is only a sporadic budget exercise, you could miss rapidly evolving internal or external changes that have a significant operational impact.
Transform your contact center forecasting and planning with Decisions, a vendor-agnostic, what-if analysis, staff- and budget-planning management system. At its core, Decisions is a series of algorithms that develop efficient operational plans and accurate forecasts in a fraction of the time of traditional contact center planning. Ideal for executives and workforce planners, Decisions answers important questions around operations, service, customer experience and resourcing.
Strategic planning must be more than an annual exercise
Take TourTake the guesswork out of contact center forecasting
Decisions is a contact center forecasting platform that can rapidly and accurately calculate business outcomes. It facilitates contact center forecasting, predicts future performance and reveals the operational impact of various scenarios and assumptions. Make enlightened decisions and achieve optimal results with a streamlined strategic planning process.
Designed specifically for contact centers, Decisions helps you better plan and budget. By accurately predicting long-term operational performance—considering the true impact of contact volumes, attrition, service levels and other key factors—you can develop effective and efficient staffing and service plans. And, with the ability to continuously track plan variations, you can respond faster to change and drive a better customer experience.
Identify and fill knowledge gaps
Get accurate answers to operational questions, without spreadsheets. Decisions is a strategic contact center forecasting and planning solution that offers accuracy, speed and agility. Determine exactly how many agents you need week over week, and predict service levels, abandons, costs, revenues, customer experience scores and profits.
Optimize staffing to drive better customer experience
Based on advanced simulation and analysis capabilities, Decisions optimizes your contact center resources and performance. Ensure that you have the right number of agents in the right location at the right time to deliver the service your customers expect. Gain a competitive advantage with the ability to analyze weekly staffing requirements. And develop highly efficient just-in-time hiring, overtime allocation, vacation distribution and training plans.
Take the stress out of budgeting
Creating your annual budget is critical. The Decisions call center forecasting platform provides you with clean, organized and readily available data so you can answer operational what-if questions quickly and plan your budget accordingly.
• Accurately create staffing plans by channel type (calls,
email, chats) or workgroup to optimize your staffing
efficiencies using simulation models with near 100%
accuracy.
• Assess cost versus performance tradeoffs
with sophisticated what-if analysis to determine outcomes
and risks associated with any staffing or interaction volume
scenario or forecast.
• Achieve the best balance
between hiring, overtime and controllable shrinkage with
prescriptive analysis using integer-programming techniques
that create just-in-time hiring plans.